Super Half 2018
Sun, Feb 04 @ 10:00 AM

Bring On Your Best Touchdown Dance!

Race Director

Race Date

General Information

The streets and trails of downtown Colorado Springs are not exactly the "Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field" but on Super Bowl Sunday (Feb. 4) more than 1,000 runners will race for paydirt there in the Seventh Annual Super Half Marathon™ and Game Day 5K™. School bands and cheerleaders will also be there to ramp up the festivities.

Pick your race, burn some calories, celebrate your accomplishment with your friends, then head home and catch the big game!

Team Competition - Both Events

Male/Female Team Requirements:

Each team must have 3 members. No more than 7.

Top 3 runner times are used for scoring

Coed Team Requirements:

Each team must have 3 members. No more than 7.

The first male and female are used for scoring, and the fastest of the 2nd male/female rounds out the third scoring team member.

Pikes Peak Ascent Qualifier

The Super Half can be used as a Pikes Peak Ascent Qualifier. Regisration for the Pikes Peak Ascent typically opens in March, thus the Super Half is a local race last-chance qualifier for the Pikes Peak Ascent. How cool is that. Qualify for the Pikes Peak Ascent on Super Bowl Sunday, and you don't even have to leave town.

The race is chip timed. All scoring is based on chip time, except the top 3 overall (male and female) are scored by gun time. The master and age-group awards are based on chip time.

No duplicate awards. That is, overall award winners are not eligible for master nor age group awards. Master award winners are not eligible for age group awards. Team members are eligible for individual awards.

Race SWAG

All participants (half marathon and 5K) will receive a long-sleeved tech shirt. Both men's and women's sizing is available. Ladies sizes run a little small. If you have too many shirts already, then sign up for the no-shirt option during registration, which reduces the registration fee by $5.

Race medal/bottle opener for the first 650 half marathon finishers (will come in handy during the Super Bowl.)

The actual Super Bowl kickoff is 4:30 p.m., so you'll have plenty of time to run and celebrate with us at Jack Quinn's pub.

The Game Plan

On race day, runners park for free on downtown city streets. Other parking options are the city parking garages, which charge $1 for Sunday parking. The locations are Nevada & Kiowa, Nevada & Colorado, and Cascade & Bijou.

Race Day registration is located at Plaza of The Rockies, 121 S Tejon. The start line is just around the corner along Colorado Ave.

Sweat check is also located at Plaza of The Rockies.

The course follows the Jack Quinn's Running Club route to the Pikes Peak Greenway Trail.

Runners complete an out-and-back course finishing just south of the Bijou St. Bridge.

Sweat check pickup is located at the finish line.

Post-race celebration

Join us at Jack Quinn's (21 S. Tejon) for awards and food and drink specials after your race! Also, sweat check pickup and light refreshments at the finish line.

NO ANIMALS, NO BABY JOGGERS/STROLLERS, NO EARBUDS/HEADPHONES, NO BIKES/TRIKES
PLEASE RESPECT THE SAFETY OF ALL.
Thank you.

Event History

In the late fall of 2011, Tim Bergsten of Pikes Peak Sports attended a Pikes Peak Road Runners board meeting. He made a pitch for a partnership between the PPRR and Pikes Peak Sports. The mission of the partnership would be to produce a new race, held on Super Bowl Sunday each year. Tim said that runners love holidays and flock to holiday races, such as the St. Patrick's Day and the Turkey Trot races. Tim pitched that Super Bowl Sunday is as close to a holiday as you can get, so why not organize a race on that day.

Mike Shafai and John Gardner were all for the idea. In fact, they wanted to offer a half marathon distance, instead of a typical 5K or 10K. Tim agreed with the half marathon distance, since those are popular and there's not too many in our area. And a half marathon would allow local runners a last-chance qualifying race before registration opens for the Pikes Peak Ascent. A 5K would be included, but the focus would be the half marathon.

It didn't take a lot of convincing. The PPRR board agreed to enter the partnership with Tim Bergsten, and thus the Super Half was born.

The first year was 2012. There was not a lot of time to get all the ducks in order, but between Tim and PPRR volunteers (mostly Pat Lockhart, Heather Evans, Mike Shafai, Larry Miller), the prep work was all completed. A good turnout of 367 Half Marathon and 399 5K finishers turned out the first year. Many in the 5K were really in the party mood, as kids rode bicycles, and a couple of runners brought their donkeys, which police and park and rec didn't appreciate.

In 2013, the numbers jumped to 484 for the Half Marathon and 553 for the 5K. The downtown area was really jumping on that Super Bowl morning.

2014 saw cold and snowy weather, thus the numbers dropped. But the Broncos were playing in the Super Bowl that evening, so many of the participants were sporting their best Bronco outfits. (We don't want to talk about how the Broncos performed that evening.)

2015 saw a rebound in registrations and finishers with 1081 finishers, a new record. It was a rockin' time in downtown Colorado Springs.

2016 saw another rebound with 1279 finishers, and home in time to watch the Broncos win!

2017 had 1230 registrations and 1123 finishers. This was the 2nd best showing. The weather was sunny and pleasant with lots of smiles from everyone.

So this race is young and has many years ahead of it. Become a part of the yearly tradition.

2015

2014

2013

2012

Course Information

Game Day 5K Course

This is an out-and-back course. The start line is on Colorado Ave, west of Tejon St. Runners head west, past the Antlers parking garage, then north behind Antlers to the Pikes Peak Greenway Trail. Turnaround is north of Uintah and the finish is just south of the Bijou Street bridge, along the trail. The course is very slight incline on the way out and a very slight decline on the way back.

This is an out-and-back course. The course begins on Colorado Ave in downtown Colorado Springs, west of Tejon St. Runners will head west, past the Antler's Hotel garage. At Antler's Park, they will turn right and head north onto the Pikes Peak Greenway Trail. They will go north, with the turnaround just south of where the trail proceeds under I-25 (mile 6.8). The course is mostly downhill back to the finish, 6.3 miles to just south of the Bijou Street bridge along the trail.

more information from RRCA on the policy Following guidelines from the Road Runners of Clubs of America (RRCA), Pikes Peak Road Runners discourages and in most cases, does not allow use of headphones in its races. The rationale for this is simple: the majority of our races are held on trails, which are crowded with many other runners (and sometimes other trail users). Maintaining one’s sensory capacity during such situations is paramount for the safety of all participants.